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Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday accused the CIA of interfering with the committee's investigation into the agency's Bush-era torture program, including conducting an unauthorized "search" of the committee's computers and removing documents, in an effort to thwart a potentially "searing indictment" of the interrogation program.
In a statement given on the Senate floor, the democratic senator said she had "grave concerns" that the CIA's search "may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution" as well as "the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as Executive Order 12333, which prohibits the CIA from conducting domestic searches or surveillance."
She also said the CIA was attempting "to intimidate this staff—and I am not taking it lightly."
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speech was the latest salvo in an escalating battle between the CIA and the Senate over oversight of an interrogation program conducted by the CIA in the early 2000s and Feinstein's first remarks on the subject. Last week, the CIA was accused of monitoring Senate staffers and it was reported that Senate staffers had improperly taken classified CIA documents out of a secure facility.
The ACLU praised Feinstein's efforts to call out the CIA's surveillance and its efforts to cover up its own wrongdoing.
"After so many years of Congress being unable or unwilling to assert its authority over the CIA, Senator Feinstein today began to reclaim the authority of Congress as a check on the Executive Branch. Public release of the Senate torture report will be the next step to reining in a CIA that has tortured, destroyed evidence, spied on Congress, and lied to the American people," stated Christopher Anders, senior legislative counsel with the group.
Reprieve, a charity that represents some of those tortured under the program, welcomed the senator's comments as well.
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"Senator Feinstein is right: the CIA torture program should never have existed," stated Alka Pradhan, Counter-terrorism Counsel at Reprieve US. "The only way to move forward from this terrible chapter in American history is to allow the Senate to fully exercise its oversight function, and to declassify the Senate Select Intelligence Committee Report on the CIA torture program. We cannot learn from history unless we know what it is."
CIA head John Brennan denied the allegations, telling NBC News' Andrea Mitchell, "We wouldn't do that."
"When the facts come out on this, I think a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous, sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong, " Brennan said.
Yet what continues to stand out to some observers is not Feinstein's defense of separation of powers but the irony that a senator who has been a longtime defender of surveillance is now outraged that her Senate committee was spied upon.
In December, for example, Feinstein said that the NSA's bulk collection of phone data "is constitutional and helps keep the country safe from attack." The comment came a month after she had proposed a bill that would "codify" the NSA's worst abuses. But this defense surveillance goes back years, such as her backing Bush's FISA amendments as well as legal immunity for telecommunications firms for their role in surveillance.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden called out the hypocrisy of Feinstein's outrage over senators being spied upon while supporting of NSA spying on ordinary citizens.
In a statement sent to NBC News, Snowden said, "It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that's a serious constitutional concern."
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KINGSTON, R.I. – Bellator Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney still isn't ready to divulge all the details about his company's new reality show, which begins filming in late January or early February, but he's dropping some big hints.
On Friday MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) caught up with the fight executive to discuss the new venture.
While he said the show will include plenty of storytelling, he said it'll also involve a group of fighters who surpass the talent level of any previous MMA-related reality series.
"There are some wickedly good pros on this show," he told MMAjunkie.com. "I think we have the greatest collection of talent that's ever been on a reality show in this genre."
The "genre," of course, includes "The Ultimate Fighter," the UFC's long-running and ground-breaking reality series. The show, currently in its 16th season, began on Spike TV in 2005 before a move to FX this year as part of the mega UFC-FOX deal.
Bellator, which shifts from MTV2 to Spike TV in 2013, will give the channel some MMA reality TV once again. But unlike "TUF," which hasn't produce the quantity of UFC-ready fighters it once did, Rebney suggested Bellator could see immediate benefits. Not only will the Bellator reality show feature top talent, those fighters' stories will be told in detail thanks to producer Bertram van Munster (who's also won many awards as the co-creator/executive producer of CBS' Emmy-winning "The Amazing Race").
"It'll be very true to what we're about," Rebney said. "I think the best way to describe it is it will be a lot like what our producer, Bertram van Munster, does with 'The Amazing Race.' It will be good storytelling, and a lot of focus on who the fighters are and what they're about.
"But it'll also have some incredible fighters on it fighting in a cage."
Bellator recently hosted open tryouts at Florida's American Top Team for the show, which is expected to feature lightweight and welterweight fighters. Hopefuls were told they needed at least three pro fights and a winning percentage above .500.
With the show set to begin production in a few months, one major decision still to be made is exactly where the show will be set. Rebney said it's down to two cities, presumedly in the U.S., though he's not ready to divulge the details for a few more weeks.
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You are working on your final essay and preparing to turn in 35% of your grade, and the universe hears you thinking out loud, your curses at the screen. It hears your exhaustion, and perhaps, just the slightest temptation to lift a paragraph or idea from a source you're reading. You know, since you can't say it any better than its author did… and anyway it's 3:00 AM. Maybe this isn't you. I hope it isn't you. But if you're human, you've probably at least thought about it. We all have.
This New York Times article describes how plagiarism is on the rise on college campuses all over the country. Any student would be most wise to read this. It isn't very long, and is a thoughtful approach to a topic that is typically unthoughtfully discussed in class: academic integrity and intellectual property.
Many instructors don't want to have to spend time discussing plagiarism, and I'll admit I have felt like students should know this by now. I have also felt that I am only preaching to the choir, since someone lazy and irresponsible enough to cheat clearly isn't going to bother to read or listen. Often the discussions of cheating that occur the first day of class are like bad sex-ed talks from the 1950s—"don't ever do it; bad things happen if you do"—without ever talking about what "it" is.
But the notions of authorship and intellectual property have changed in the digital age, and you need to know how this will affect you, because they haven't changed at UNCG or any other college campus.
If you use someone else's words or ideas and do not give them credit, it is plagiarism, which is just a fancy word for stealing. In an age where you can illegally download music, books, movies, and where websites routinely steal passages from each other uncredited, this may seem like an antiquated notion. It's not. Not only is that how the university's Academic Integrity policy specifically defines plagiarism, but to cut and paste or in any other way claim another's thoughts as your own does not prepare you for the kind of synthesis and analysis that intelligent people must do to be a successful and productive part of society. The short-term result of plagiarizing any part of your essay in one of my classes is, of course, failing the class. But that concerns me less than its broader implications. And it should concern any student, too.
When you graduate from college, because you will have more education than many of your peers, you will have opportunities to not only be more financially secure in this world, but to shape this world. I would argue that all of us—whether we have a Ph.D. or a third-grade education—have an obligation to be a force of positive change in our communities, and as you join the ranks of those with the most education, you have the opportunity to be more visible and more convincing, since you've spent all those years learning to think logically and argue convincingly. But this means you also have an obligation to do your thinking and arguing ethically. It's not difficult at all to find examples of unethical people who have preyed upon innocent people and even profited. Bernie Madoff comes to mind, but he is one of the more egregious examples of lapses in ethics that occur on smaller scales every day. His crimes had victims with names and bank accounts. You may think intellectual property heists have no such victims, but they do, as the linked article from The Crimson attests. They not only hurt the people who actually did the hard work of composing their thoughts, but they hurt the people that steal them because they help sustain the lie that the ones who steal can generate meaningful, coherent thought. What do you think the world would look like if our country's great thinkers resorted to cut and paste instead of doing the difficult work of trying to solve our world's most pressing problems?
This may seem like a strong reaction to a problem you view as minor, but I ask you, if, from here on out, all we do is copy/paste/recycle/reuse all the thoughts that came before without improving them, challenging them, overturning them, how will we solve problems we have never faced? What will be the fate of human innovation if all our thoughts are merely mashups of someone else's deliberation?
Perhaps original thought is overrated, but I don't think so. And the university doesn't think so. And original thought is exactly what is expected in your essays. That doesn't mean you can't learn from other people's ideas, but you must give them credit for lighting your path. Don't denigrate your own talents by lifting their words verbatim without quotation marks and a citation—you're all intelligent enough to discuss a topic without resorting to stealing.


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All land use plans should be reviewed from time to time by the appropriate policy maker, and the DRVP is no exception. What often occurs over time, however, is a loss of the historical perspective on why certain aspects of a plan were either initiated, and/or adopted. The DRVP is a case in point.
In the late 90's, prior to the formation of the Dolores River Valley planning group, an investment group met with the county commissioners seeking a high-impact permit to develop a "Tamarron Style" development at Stoner. The master plan included an 18-hole golf course, lodge, condos, and home sites, all strategically located in relative close proximity to the Dolores River. Purchase of the Stoner ranch property, and a smaller parcel from Redburn ranch, was contingent on an approved permit from the county.
Although LIZ was in place, and certain guidelines under the high-impact permit could be addressed, it became readily apparent that the potential impact of such a development on the ecology of the Dolores River Valley, and watershed, far exceeded any regulatory measures the county had in place. The task for the commissioners was to make sure that whatever contingencies we put in place, would assure that there would be no negative affects to either the watershed or water quality, in the short or LONG term.
Following several months of discussion, the proposal was dropped because of a loss of investment funding. The lesson learned from this experience was that we needed a LONG-range plan for dealing with the Dolores River Valley. The valley is not just another piece of real estate in Montezuma County, it provides the life blood of our whole county, WATER. Some recent measures had been adopted to help maintain good water quality,e.g engineered septic systems, but what potential impacts could come from increased residential, and commercial development? It became the unanimous decision of the commission to be PRO-ACTIVE on this important issue, rather than taking a re-active posture on any future negative impacts on the resource.
Thus, the Dolores River Valley Planning group was created. It was comprised of representatives from the Town of Dolores, large and small acreage owners in the Dolores Valley, and citizens from other parts of the county. The Dolores River Valley becomes an integral part of every citizen in the county.
The working group was charged with examining every aspect of the Dolores River watershed, including current, and potential density levels and development impacts on water quality, channelization, riparian areas, and flooding. Following the assimilation of all this data, they were to find a consensus among the group in formulation of a plan which would provide for development, but also protect the integrity of the watershed for years to come. The plan took better than two years to complete, numerous meetings with a variety of resource personnel. The plan was reviewed by the Planning Commission, The Commissioners, then a public hearing for input, followed by amendments, then adoption.
Although no land-use plan is perfect, there was a real effort to find a balance between property-owner rights, and the protection of the watershed resource, for now, and into the future. Mechanisms were designed to allow for heavier density, Transferable Development Rights (TDR's), while still maintaining a maximum development potential.
Set-back standards are always controversial, but rivers are not static, and channel migration is always occurring. A structure built 30 feet from the river today, may be threatened by natural migration in 20 years. In reviewing the DRVP, and debating the merits of TDR's, set-back standards, density levels, and other components of the plan, I urge you to consider what is in the best interest of the Dolores River watershed, and all of the citizens of Montezuma County dependent on this valuable resource.
Respectfully Submitted,
G. Eugene Story, Kent Lindsay, Kelly Wilso, Dewayne Findley
Former Montezuma County commissioners


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Cellular Imaging and Biophysics
Structural Cell Biology
Macromolecular crystallography, in combination with other biophysical and biochemical techniques, is the most powerful tool currently available for obtaining the high resolution information necessary to understand the details of the macromolecular interactions governing cell life. Shortly after research groups within the department identify which interactions are important, efforts to visualize critical macromolecular complexes begin.
One group of current projects focuses on understanding protein-RNA interactions, as required for RNA processing; another aims to understand the last steps of exocytosis at the atomic level.
Cellular Imaging
We are seeing a revolution in imaging, the revolution is seeing. Progress in cell biology is closely linked with advances in microscopy.
Indeed, our understanding of how cells work is intimately tied to the tools that allow us to "see" them and their components in space and time. Our department has a long history of applying state-of-the-art microscopy to understand basic cell biological processes. In fact, the Yale department of Cell Biology was created by Nobel laureate Dr. George Palade, a pioneer in the use of electron microscopy to examine the ultrastructural organization of cells. Our tradition of using imaging to discover and understand complex cellular phenomenon remains in the fore.
In particular in the last decade, with the development of green fluorescent protein (GFP) and rainbow of multicolored probes it is now possible to specifically label virtually any molecule and directly probe its function in live cells by light microscopy. This ability to visualize, often for the first time, the dynamics of proteins in vesicles, organelles, cells and tissue has begun to provide new insights into how cells function in health and disease. Such work yield unique mechanistic insight by directly illustrating the complex spatial-temporal dynamics of fundamental cellular processes studied by many labs here including: mitosis, morphogenesis, polarization, T cell recognition, embryonic development, membrane trafficking, and cytoskeleton dynamics.
Many of these processes are highly dynamic and are challenging to image by traditional means. In this aim, we are strongly committed to the development and application of new optical imaging methods that will enable us and others to understand the complex organization within and between cells. For instance, powerful optical techniques like Total Internal Reflection Fluorescent Microscopy (TIRFM) and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) allow us to essentially do biochemistry at the single vesicle and molecule level inside cells. Similarly, we are applying 4D multicolor confocal imaging and reconstruction to understand the dynamic organization of cells and tissue - and ultimately how it's altered in human disease. Importantly to our continued progress, a new 'CINEMA' imaging center (Cellular Imaging using New Microscopy Approaches) was recently created and has close corporate partnerships so as to provide a platform to test, develop and apply new imaging instrumentation.


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I whipped up this fun, easy little t-shirt for Olivia last night. I already had the pieces for the t-shirt cut out, so it came together especially quick.
It was a little chilly when we went out to take pictures this morning.
Someone wasn't too keen on being outside just then. :)
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When I showed the finished t-shirt to Olivia this morning, she saw the tree and said, "Christmas tree!" Haha. Fair enough, kiddo.
It's funny. I didn't plan the design thinking "Christmas tree." I just thought, "tree."
When someone asks you to draw a tree, what kind of tree do you draw?
My trees look like the one on this shirt.
My husband's trees look like a fluffy cloud with a trunk coming out of the bottom.
I've asked several of my friends from Oregon and other random places and this phenomenon seems to be consistent across the board.
Friends from Oregon: evergreen trees
Friends from Elsewhere: deciduous trees
I had never been so conscious of my simple tree drawings before, but apparently they're a mark of my earthy, socks-with-sandals, tree-hugging childhood.
Clearly this is a heritage that I have so far failed to pass on to my daughter. Because she is still calling the very ordinary tree on her shirt a "Christmas tree." Shakes head. Someday she'll learn. Maybe.
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This time I also got brave and did most of the sewing (for putting the shirt together, not sewing on the little tree) on my serger. I don't think the quality is necessarily better or that the construction is simpler, but my serger goes a lot faster than the zigzag stitch on my regular sewing machine.
Do you have a preference when you sew with knits? I know for a long time I thought I couldn't sew with knit fabric unless I had a serger and it scared me off from knits for a long time. What a waste! My regular machine actually handles knits great, but, like I said, my serger is faster than the zigzag stitch, so whatevs.
Anyway, want to adorn your own little tree-hugger in a fresh Pine Tree Tee of their own?
Get the FREE PATTERN and how-to after the jump!
Note: I use the same basic process for this tee as I used for the Rainy Cloud Tee. I included more of the specifics for each step in that tutorial, so if you need more detailed instructions or more descriptive pictures, be sure to check there.
Step 1: Print & cut pattern
Click HERE or on the image above to view and print a copy of the Pine Tree Pattern.
Please remember that this pattern is for personal use only! Thanks. :)
Use the 1" mark to check and make sure the pattern prints to scale.
Step 2: Cut pieces from fabric
Using the pattern, cut one TREE piece and one TRUNK piece.
I cut the tree from a regular t-shirt.
I cut the trunk from a rib-knit tank top.* The ribbing gives the trunk a great woodsy texture.
*This is also the same fabric I used for the ribbing along the neckline.
Step 3: Pin & Sew
Play around with the tree and trunk pieces to figure out where you want them to be on the shirt. Pin the trunk in place and remove the tree piece.
Starting at the top of the trunk, sew* down one side, across the bottom, and up the other side.
Re-position the tree piece, making sure the bottom of the tree covers the top 1/4" or so of the trunk. Pin the tree in place, and sew around the entire tree.
*Using a regular straight stitch, sew about an 1/8" from the edge of the trunk/tree pieces. If you have a sewing machine that tends to eat knits, you may want to use a slightly bigger seam allowance.
TIP: Holding tight to the thread ends as you sew the first couple of stitches will help keep your monster machine from eating up your fabric.
That's it for the applique!
I sewed this little tree onto the shirt front before sewing the rest of the t-shirt together, but I think it would be easy enough to sew onto a finished or pre-made shirt as well.
Have fun "planting" trees!


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Dolly Parton Jeweled Gloves
Dolly rocked fabulous sheer gloves that gave the illusion of beads across her hands.
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Dolly is the queen of glamour with her long red nails.
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Dolly blinged all over sporting this huge diamond cross ring.
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fine little everything
Elizabeth Dunker has been a favorite for a long while and I get so very excited to see
anything new from her. I just ordered this new mountain tea towel because, well, I have
a weakness for tea towels and this mountain print is just too pretty. I don't want to
sound greedy but I would also love her Tusch pilow too!
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I also have a weakness for tea towels. I have about 15 tea towels:)ReplyDelete
Thar is seriously beautiful! So jealous!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2010
Those mountains are too cute.ReplyDelete
if you love tea towels, you've surely heard of skinny laminx - she has some lovely ones. i bought a few and fon't want to use them!ReplyDelete
it's such a great print- love it in pillow form as well!ReplyDelete
i love all of these! the tusch pillow may be my fave.ReplyDelete
what a sweet print! i have more of a weekness for pillows and will have to check out these lovely ones!ReplyDelete
ooh thats all prettttty.ReplyDelete
Beautiful pillows! Looks like such a comfy place!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2010
i love each and every one of those cushions... i feel the need to re-decorate (again!)ReplyDelete
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Jamison is a professor of psychiatry at the prestigious Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and is co-author of Manic Depressive Illness, an authoritative tome on bipolar mood disorder. She is best known for her thoughtful and moving memoir An Unquiet Mind, in which she describes her personal experience of manic depression. She has also written Touched With Fire, a discussion of the relation between mania and creativity. In her new book on suicide, she maintains her focus on depression and manic depression. The great majority of people (in the west at least) who commit suicide suffer from a major mental illness.
The blurb accompanying Night Falls Fast says it is "the first major book in a quarter century on suicide." This exaggerates: Jamisons book is largely a summary of readily available information. She does not attempt to give a new account of the causes or the effects of suicide, and she does not have any new proposals for how to reduce the numbers of suicides and suicide attempts. Furthermore, there has been a number of books published in the last ten years on the same topic, such as David Lester's Making Sense of Suicide (reviewed in Metapsychology September 1998), Mark William's Cry of Pain: Understanding Suicide and Self-Harm, and Geo Stone's Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences.
The strength of this new book is not in new research or proposals, but in the quality of Jamison's writing and her ability to bring together existing research. She intersperses discussion of scientific research with stories of individuals. Her knowledge of the research is impressive: there are 96 pages of notes and references in small print at the end of the book. She explains the facts of suicide in clear straightforward prose, structuring the book with definitions at the start, then discussing psychology and psychopathology, methods of suicide, biology and evolution, and finally suicide prevention. Her tone is even and reassuring; in the face of such a painful topic, Jamison retains an authoritative calm. She explains the facts with compassion and concern, dispelling myths and preconceptions as she goes along.
For instance, on Christmas Day my mother usually tells me that more people commit suicide on that day than on any other day of the year. But this turns out to be untrue, since holidays do not bring more suicides than other days, although Valentines day does bring more suicide attempts. Jamison emphasizes that the mood stabilizer lithium is clearly the best drug we have to fight suicide. Antidepressants and newer mood stabilizers may have fewer side effects, but they turn out to be less successful at preventing suicide. Drug manufacturers may not want to emphasize this finding, because they dont have a patent on lithium, it being a naturally occurring chemical, and so they cannot make much profit from it.
Of course, it is the personal stories that carry the most emotional impact. This is especially true of her telling of the life and death of Drew Sopirak, who joined the United States Air Force Academy with high hopes. But he had manic depression, and his condition declined until he killed himself. Jamison talks about the effects on his family and friends, and how they remember him. There are moments of grim humor, such as when she quotes Dorothy Parkers writings on her suicide attempts. She quotes suicide notes of the famous and the unknown. She briefly mentions her own suicide attempt, and she alludes to the profound effect that suicide has had on her own family.
Night Falls Fast is not a self-help book, nor is it a textbook. Yet it may be useful to many people who want to better understand suicide. Ultimately Jamison aims to raise awareness about suicide, and to draw attention to how serious a problem it is for our society. Many other problems that cause less grief get more attention from the public. The stigma over suicide overlaps with the stigma of mental illness, and often people dont even know how to bring up the topic. Across the world, suicide accounts for 1.8% of all deaths. In women aged between 15 and 44 years, it is the second leading cause of death after tuberculosis. For men in this age range, it is the fourth leading cause of death, after road traffic accidents, tuberculosis, and violence.
When I explain such facts to students in my undergraduate classes on death and dying, they say they previously had no idea that suicide is so prevalent. This reflects how little attention suicide gets in popular culture, as well as how many misconceptions regarding it persist. High profile suicides (especially of rock stars and celebrities) are generally given uninformed and slanted coverage in the news media. Even if Jamison only partially succeeds in bringing more awareness of the growing epidemic of suicide in western society, she will have accomplished a great deal.
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Invited via email, 471 decision-makers completed our online questionnaire between January 13 and February 23. Each respondent has responsibility for relocation and is employed by a company that has either relocated employees during the past two years or plans to relocate employees this year.
Since 1977, the percentage of firms which are service based has essentially doubled (21.2% to 45% in 2017). This follows the trend of the overall U.S. economy shifting from a primarily manufacturing/processing driven engine to a more knowledge/service-based economy over the past 50 years. While manufacturing/processing firms still represent 24% of the companies participating in the survey, additional categories like financial, wholesale/retail, and government combined now comprise more than a fourth of represented sectors. The diversity of what drives the economic engine of the country also increases the unique factors that surround relocation needs of both companies and employees in the new millennium.
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Unlike much of the news these days, reports this week that PBS is planning an animated spinoff of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" are enough to lower the blood pressure.
It's been eight years since the reassuringly kind man in the sweater and sneakers passed away. Re-runs of his show, an oasis of calm amid TV bombast, ended in 2008, meaning this generation of preschoolers is the first since the late 1960s unable to get a daily Mr. Rogers fix of mellow.
But it's not all about the kids – in an era of so-called Reality TV, we all could use a return to the Land of Make-Believe.
The new show – called "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" – will star the son of our favorite striped little big cat (who apparently grew up to be just fine, despite hectoring by Lady Elaine Fairchilde). Word of the spinoff comes, coincidentally or otherwise, at a time brimming with childhood throwbacks: the surprising Smurfs are battling for box office supremacy and the old-school "Winnie the Pooh" reboot is getting honey-laden reviews. We're most excited, though, by the new Muppets movie due out in November.
The Muppets, of course, are the big furry-and-felt players on "Sesame Street," Mr. Rogers' edgier, delightfully extroverted PBS neighbor. The shows, both of which debuted in the late 1960s, represented a morning tag-team of seeming opposites. But both treated the audience of all ages with respect, embracing childhood, while not standing for childishness, especially from those old enough to know better.
Mr. Rogers treated his guest, famous and otherwise, with a similar respect, showcasing the value of conversation – and, perhaps more importantly, the value of listening. As Mr. Rogers used to sing in his closing song about the promise of a new day, "You'll have things you'll want to talk about. I will, too" – words that seem anathema in a media culture where much of our public discourse has denigrated into one big shouting contest. The Reality TV landscape, meanwhile, is filled with regular people who quarrel and act foolish in a grab for fame. In Mr. Rogers' neighborhood, conflict was resolved, sans rancor, in a fantasyland of puppets and people, just a trolley ride away.
Sesame Street, headed for its 42nd season, and the new Muppet movie represent the ongoing legacy of the vibrantly creative Jim Henson, more than 20 year after his death. We expect "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" will mark a long-overdue extension of the legacy of Fred Rogers, whose gentle style, hopefully, has a place in our popular culture.
A 2009 study found that even in this Internet age, kids 2 to 5 spend nearly 25 hours a week watching TV. It couldn't hurt for them to spend some of that time in a neighborhood we all should revisit.
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...These are experiences and skills that will carry me through many dark days as a writer. But the same skills would have benefited me if I were leaving for the pharmaceutical industry, or for consulting, or to open a microbrewery. Everyone needs a problem solver, an articulate communicator, a thoughtful arbitrator. If graduate students can learn to approach their education as a series of learning opportunities rather than a five-year-long job interview, I think many who choose to leave would find that they had not wasted their time but rather that they had learned a great deal in a safe environment, while being paid, to boot. (emphasis CJ's)
...A few months ago, I attended an event sponsored by several local biomedical universities titled "What Can You Be With a Ph.D.?" The event was spread over numerous auditoriums and included panels on science writing; teaching at the elementary, high-school, and college levels; government jobs, both in bureaucracy and research; forensic lab work; nonprofits; finance; biotechnology; consulting; and, yes, even postdoctoral research. Roaming from panel to panel, I was amazed at the sheer scope of opportunity for science Ph.D.'s. The event reinforced that, as the world becomes ever more data driven, our experiences in collecting and analyzing data make us increasingly valuable commodities in any number of fields. Looking around, it became clear that we've been looking at this pyramid upside down.
Crucially, they [professors] must make it clear that leaving academe does not suddenly brand them a waste of their mentor's time... But too many young scientists are made to feel worthless because of their desire to leave academic science. It has to stop.Perhaps it's the fact that most chemistry graduate students (used to?) end up in industry. But your self-worth shouldn't be dependent on whether or not you can become a tenure-track professor and the vagaries of your mentor's evaluation, true or not.


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How the Word of Wisdom Came to Be – Story
Print one copy of the pictures from Doctrine and Covenant Stories chp 31. Cut the printed sheets in half on the dotted lines.
(Going in order, read the numbered paragraphs below as you show the corresponding numbered Doctrine and Covenant Stories picture to the family.)
1. How did we get the Word of Wisdom? In Kirtland, Ohio the Lord instructed Joseph Smith to form a school to teach the leaders of the Church about the gospel and prepare them to serve the members of the Church. This school was called the School of the Prophets.
2. The school was held in the evenings in an upstairs room of Newel K. Whitney's store.
3. Many of the men smoked pipes or cigars which filled the room with smoke. Some of the men chewed tobacco and spit it all over the floor making it very dirty. People at this time did not know that tobacco was bad for their bodies. Joseph Smith did not like teaching the school "in a cloud of tobacco smoke," because the meetings there were sacred.
4. Emma Smith, Joseph's wife, cleaned the room after each meeting. She and Joseph became concerned about the brethren's use of tobacco, and Emma did not like cleaning up the mess the men made with their pipes and chewing tobacco.
5. On 27 February 1833 Joseph Smith entered the room where the School of the Prophets was held. The room was filled with tobacco smoke. Joseph had just come from the clean outside air, and the smell of smoke was offensive to him. He left the room and asked the Lord what he should do about the situation. The Lord answered Joseph's prayer with the revelation we now call the Word of Wisdom (D&C 89). In the Word of Wisdom the Lord tells us what things are good for the body and what things are bad for the body.


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CINCINNATI — The Procter & Gamble Co. is going for marketing gold at the Winter Olympic Games.
The consumer products maker on Thursday unveiled a "Thanks, Mom" campaign, with commercials highlighting the role of U.S. athletes' mothers while also offering them financial help with Vancouver travel expenses.
The campaign adds to its earlier support of the team with sponsorship dollars, a Vancouver family meeting place and advertising deals with such stars as skier Lindsey Vonn and speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno.
With P&G slapping the Team USA logo on everything from Pampers diapers to Pringles chips cans in its biggest Olympics involvement yet, marketing experts say the world's biggest advertiser is pulling out all the stops in a broad-based effort to speed up sales that slowed during the recession.
"They're going to do it in a way that rings the cash register," said Rob Prazmark, a veteran Olympic marketer and consultant.
"It's a forum and an opportunity to tell your story and develop different kinds of campaigns," said Kevin Lane Keller, a marketing professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He said the Winter Games, unlike a one-shot event like the Super Bowl, draw repeat viewers over a couple of weeks.
The company was attracted by the Olympics' appeal for women, teens, 18-to-34-year-olds and other key demographic groups, and will have a multimedia marketing effort, said Kirk Perry, P&G vice president for North America.
Slideshow: Most bankable Winter Olympians "You won't be able to miss us the next few weeks," Perry said Thursday from Vancouver.
The Cincinnati-based maker of Crest toothpaste and Tide detergent is a team sponsor and also is paying for the Family Home, which serves as a meeting place for athletes and families to watch events, eat, and pick up tickets. And athletes with children in diapers can try out a new version of Pampers.
Besides the "Thanks, Mom" commercials, P&G offered athletes' mothers or another key figure in team members' lives pre-loaded debit cards to help with expenses. Amounts weren't disclosed, but P&G officials described them as significant.
"The families of some of our U.S. Olympians are going through a period of hardship with our weakened economy, and the Games can be an extremely expensive experience," Lisa Baird, the U.S. Olympic Committee's chief marketing officer, said in a statement.
Perry said more than 200 family members have taken advantage of what P&G dubbed "No Mom left behind."
P&G won't discuss what it's spending, including an estimated $15 million-$16 million for its Team USA sponsorship that includes the 2012 London Summer Games. But Perry said Thursday P&G is considering ways to increase Olympic involvement, including a possible global sponsorship with the International Olympic Committee.
Catch the latest news, results, video from Vancouver exclusively on NBCOlympics.comSome key U.S. sponsors including General Motors had pulled out amid the recession, so adding the marketing might of P&G, with an advertising budget of some $8 billion a year, was a coup for the U.S. Olympic Committee.
"The P&G deal saved the USOC sponsorship program from further decline and defections," said Prazmark, who works with the committee. "It showed the marketplace that Olympic marketing was still a valuable commodity if it could attract the likes of P&G."
Meanwhile, he said, studies have shown that effective Olympic campaigns can provide much better brand awareness than typical advertising efforts.
"These things can move market share 2 or 3 percent; when you're dealing with billions of dollars in these categories, moving 1 or 2 percent is a big deal," Prazmark said.
P&G is expected to easily top the $22.6 million Kantar Media reports it spent on 2008 Beijing Games advertising. It has at least 16 U.S. athletes in individual sponsorship deals.
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Anti-Common Core Legislation Coming From Indiana Lawmaker
Ever since the defeat of a resolution opposing the Common Core State Standards at the American Legislative Exchange Council, a Washington-based conservative think tank which ideologically might have been sympathetic with common standards foes, the question for those foes has been where they would go from there. Without the stamp of ALEC's influential approval, what would be their strategy?
Indiana Sen. Scott Schneider, a Republican, has one straightforward strategy—he has proposed legislation that would require Indiana to withdraw from the common standards in English/language arts and math, the Associated Press has reported. "I am worried that common core was pushed on Indiana without proper review of what it will mean for students and teachers," Schneider said in a press statement Wednesday. His bill is scheduled for a committee hearing Jan. 16.
The legislation, if approved, would mean that Indiana would become the first state to withdraw from the common standards altogether, and a move that would sting for common core proponents and those working on the assessments. It would also represent a stinging rebuke for Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett, a Republican and common standards champion who is transitioning to Florida's top education position after getting the boot in Indiana's Nov. 6 election in favor of Democrat Glenda Ritz, now the superintendent-elect. (Ritz herself has questioned the common standards and the core's new battery of tests.) After he lost, Bennett warned that the common core could be in jeopardy for Hoosiers, and this at least represents one lawmaker's attempt to make Bennett's prophecy closer to reality.
However, it's not clear that either incoming Republican Gov. Mike Pence or Republican leadership in the legislature would even contemplate siding with Schneider. Remember, ALEC's national chairman in 2012 when the group shot down the anti-common core proposal was Indiana Rep. Dave Frizzell, a Republican.
Schneider voiced opposition to the common standards in January 2012, and has pushed for a further "study" of the standards.
Still, the news brings to mind a conversation I just had with Emmett McGroarty with the American Principles Project, a Washington-based nonprofit vigorously opposed to the standards due to the belief that they represent federal intrusion into K-12 and bad education policy. In an interview I did for a story I'm working on for a later date, he said that groups like his have been active at the grassroots level in several states, and he highlighted Indiana as a state where he saw good results from that kind of work. He listed several other states like Colorado, where anti-common core lobbying is also underway.
"I think there's a strong possibility that a state or two will withdraw this year, maybe more," McGroarty said.
He has obvious reasons for making that prediction, but Schneider's plan proves it's not totally off base.


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Sam Raimi's second horror classic. Ash and Linda go for a romantic vacation to a secluded cabin. There they discover a book bound in human skin and find the recorded notes of the archaeologist who discovered the terrifying tome known as the Necronomicon Ex Mortis. The recording recites incantations that release evil spirits that possess both the living and recently deceased. Linda falls prey to these spirits, and Ash is left to try and vanquish the evil.
It may sound like a tasteless cliché, and worse, the sequel of a tasteless cliché. But it was with the first Evil Dead that the "cabin in the woods" horror film had its genesis, and the true genius of Evil Dead 2 is that it is not a simple continuation of events of the previous film. It is an extension of the first film while at the same time being a parody of it and other horror films. It teeters the fine line between horror and comedy, scaring you immediately after you finished a hysterical cackle.
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Planning to exercise more or eat fewer sweets in the New Year? If so, you're taking part in a tradition that stretches back thousands of years.
Ancient people practiced the fine art of New Year's resolutions, though their oaths were external, rather than internally focused. More than 4,000 years ago, the ancient Babylonians celebrated the New Year not in January, but in March, when the spring harvest came in. The festival, called Akitu, lasted 12 days.
An important facet of Akitu was the crowning of a new king, or reaffirmation of loyalty to the old king, should he still sit on the throne. Special rituals also affirmed humanity's covenant with the gods; as far as Babylonians were concerned, their continued worship was what kept creation humming. [ Top 10 Creation Myths ]
Roman New Year
Centuries later, the ancient Romans had similar traditions to ring in their new year, which also originally began in March. In the early days of Rome, the city magistrates' terms were defined by this New Year's date. On March 1, the old magistrates would affirm before the Roman Senate that they had performed their duties in accordance with the laws. Then, the New Year's magistrates would be sworn into office.
After Rome became an empire in 27 B.C., New Year's Day became a time for city leaders and soldiers to swear an oath of loyalty to the Emperor. This was not always mere political theater: In A.D. 69, after Emperor Nero died, civil war broke out over Rome's next leader. The Roman legions in Germany refused to swear allegiance to the next candidate for Emperor, Servius Sulpicius Galba, said Richard Alston, a professor of Roman history at Royal Holloway University of London. Galba's bodyguards in Rome soon turned against him as well, and killed him in the Forum, Rome's civic plaza. [ In Photos: The Gladiators of Ancient Roman Empire ]
Like Babylon, Rome originally celebrated the New Year in March, Alston told LiveScience, but at some point around 300 B.C., the ceremony shifted to Jan. 1. Rome was a military society, he said, and as the empire expanded, the generals had to travel longer distances. Prime battle season was in the spring, which probably made a March 1 swear-in date too late.
"They wanted to have the generals in place for the campaigning season," Alston said.
As Romans gradually became less warlike, the switch from celebrating the New Year during a month (March) associated with Mars, the god of war to one (January), associated with Janus, a god of home and hearth, seemed appropriate, he added. The first half of New Year's Day in Rome would have been taken up by public ceremonies, oath-taking and temple sacrifices, he said, while the second half of the day was for social activities. Citizens would bring each other gifts of honey, pears and other sweets as presents for a "sweet new year," Alston said.
Modern traditions
There is no direct line from ancient Roman tradition to modern New Year's resolutions, but the desire to start anew pops up repeatedly in western civilization. In 1740, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, invented a new type of church service. These services, called Covenant Renewal Services or watch night services, were held during the Christmas and New Year's season as an alternative to holiday partying. Today, these services are often held on New Year's Eve, according to the United Methodist Church. Worshippers sing, pray, reflect on the year and renew their covenant with God.
New Year's resolutions have become a secular tradition, and most Americans who make them now focus on self-improvement. The U.S. government even maintains a website of those looking for tips on achieving some of the most popular resolutions : losing weight, volunteering more, stopping smoking, eating better, getting out of debt and saving money.
Still, New Year's resolutions may be falling out of favor. A CBS News poll in 2013 found that 68 percent of Americans don't make New Year's resolutions. Two years ago, that number was 58 percent. People under the age of 30 were more likely than older folks to make resolutions — but only about half of resolution-makers keep their promises.
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Sorry, in spite of all the great plans, there hasn't been activity here for years, and it doesn't seem like I will get around to it soon either, but I hope you find the old content still useful.
People who have read my compass pages before have been many, they are visited by several hundreds every day. There has however, been few updates there in the past couple of years. This is mostly been due to me writing a big thesis in astrophysics. This thesis writing is nearing its end and therefore, I would like to devote more of my time to making orienteering instructional materials available on the web. That is, expand the scope beyond just the compass.
From allowing non-profit use and allow reproduction as long as my name is on the work, I will also move towards even more liberal copyright restrictions: When the new site goes online one of the licenses I consider is the Free Documentation License. Pretty much, it means that you can use it for whatever you like, but any changes you do must be contributed back to the project. There are some issues that needs to be addressed however, but I shall return to them in due time. It is also worth having a look at Creative Commons, as I may well compose a lisence by using the mechanisms they are developing.
I wrote my first web page about the same time Netscape was first released on the Internet, the fall of 1994. I have had time to gain some experience, and I have learned most things the hard way, by making mistakes (that's the only way to learn!).
More importantly, I have come to see the choice of technology not only
as a mere pragmatist
what works best in the current
situation, but also from an idealist's viewpoint: I believe
that technology should advance all mankind. The greatest
things we enjoy have been developed with that perspective,
the Internet and the Web as two great examples. However,
attempts are made to build closed technology, technology
that prevents understanding on the top of these
structures. These technologies are something I cannot support.
These pages will be based on open standards, where the specification of the technology has been released to the public, and where everybody are allowed to make an implementation. Further, the software on the server will be based on Free Software, most probably Debian GNU/Linux as operating system and the Apache Web Server. Currently, I'm also working with the AxKit XML Application Server and that is also a system that is likely to be under the hood of all this.
Great discussions will arise from this, for more, see my initial thoughts on the technology pages
I can't do all this alone, of course. First of all, I plan to gather a
bunch of people to work with me on it, called a
group. Some will write stuff and make figures. Some
will concentrate on writing the software that makes the
site work. Others again contribute by making translations
to their own languages.
However, to enable everybody to work together, there has to be a lot of infrastructure in place. The initial phase will not consist of making a lot new content, but rather choose and develop the tools that the content creators need to work efficiently.
This is not going to be only from me (or us) to you. Eventually we'll make a number of mailing lists where there will be discussion on how to improve the site, both technology and content. More importantly for most of our visitors, there will be addresses for you to use to seek help.
In fact, the first mailing list is now up, but it is from me to you... It is an announcement list that I hope everybody interested will sign up to, so that I can tell you how things progress.
Touchy subject, this.... I'm not going to make any commitments. I finished my thesis not very long ago and have just got my first job doing web things. Things are progressing slowly, and since I try to spend some time in the woods myself, there isn't much spare time a spend in front of the computer right now. I have, however, got a computer on the net, that I control fully, and as stated I have created the first mailing list. The job consumes my time, pretty much, so I will not have time for the specifics of this project for some time, but I expect that much of the technology used in my job is applicable here to. Then the technology development phase will begin, and you'll see a note here when that happens, but don't expect to see a lot of changes before that happens. Then, the current content will be rewritten to meet the new technology standards. When that has been done, the new site will come online. At that time, I'll send an e-mail to all the people who have e-mailed me in the past (I have huge file of e-mail addresses of all those), and announce it to the appropriate foras. Then, development of new content will start.
Yep, that is all I have so far. And now, if you've read this far, please do go and enjoy the Illustrated Guide on How to Use a Compass!


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A face with a thousand wrinkles - she'd come to do her hair,
In the kitchen near the pickles she was sitting there,
Wearing an old red towel, her tresses not so fine,
The wife stuck all the rollers in, resembling porcupine.
She added then the chemicals, the smell was quite atrocious,
Sending out an awful stink - a bit like halitosis,
Next she put the dryer on - won`t hear what I say,
I cannot make the coffee, guess who's in the way?
Checking in the mirror looking for the roots,
All her bracelets jangling - the ones she bought in Boots,
Gossiping with slander and slurping mugs of tea,
Wolfing down the biscuits like a refugee.
Spouting off on politics and stinking of Old Spice
Her diet's shot out the window but she's giving me advice
Then came the tearful bit, amongst the diatribe,
The picture of adversity because her cat had died.
Continuing the treatment and all that it entails,
Gets the scarlet varnish out to paint her fingernails,
Soon she's gazing happy with the powder and the paint,
Gathering up her normal face - of a persecuted saint.
She ups and lights a ciggy - doesn't really care,
Leaving piles of fag-ash underneath the chair,
Thinks she's looking sexy, gives me a dirty leer,
Then she goes and helps herself - to my favourite beer.
She tells me that the daughters turn out just like mothers
Reminding me quite starkly while hitching up her udders
Now she feels quite beautiful, she smiles and looks at me,
I have a sudden feeling I should be miles away at sea.
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The economic fundamentals that underpin the appliance market are positive in the long term. The latest forecast calls for a gain of 8% in U.S. production of household appliances in 2014. This follows a rise of 6% in 2013.
These are pretty decent back-to-back annual gains, but as the accompanying chart illustrates, this industry is still a long way from full recovery. After the housing bubble burst in 2008, U.S. production of appliances was stuck at a painfully low level for more than four years. Things are finally improving, but a steep hill still needs to be climbed. At the current rate of growth (6-8%/yr), it will take at least another two years before the domestic appliance industry gets back to anywhere near pre-recession levels.
The key to domestic demand for household appliances will be the continued improvement in U.S. residential construction and real-estate markets. Both are currently in a well-established recovery phase, but the pace of expansion has decelerated in the second half of 2013. There are several reasons for this: slow household-income growth; difficulties accessing credit; rising interest rates; and uncertainty stemming from inept policymaking in Washington. All of these factors are expected to gradually improve over the coming months, so that recoveries in the residential-construction and real-estate sectors will regain momentum in 2014.
Another factor that processors who supply this market should be aware of is pent-up consumer demand. Despite the lackluster economy, appliances continue to be used at pretty much the same rate as always. Consumers do not cut back on their use of appliances during recessions—they just cut back on the purchase of new ones. What this means is that the average age of the appliances currently in use is quite high, and getting higher. The constant pressure to replace aging stock creates pent-up demand, and the release of some of this demand is starting to emerge.
As for global demand for household appliances, the fundamentals are just as good as, if not better than, they are for the domestic market. Global demand for appliances is expected to grow at 5-6% per year for the next four or five years. There is a burgeoning middle class in many developing nations. Household appliances are high on their list of wants and will likely account for a higher portion of household spending than in the developed countries of North America and Europe.
But the question remains, "Where will the world's appliances be manufactured?" The U.S. is currently the biggest global market for household appliances. We have more appliances per household, and we purchase bigger and more technologically sophisticated appliances than any other country. But one of the implications of the accompanying chart is that our domestic appliance industry is withering, and it remains to be seen whether we can recapture our once dominant position. Though the demand fundamentals are all pointing upward in the future, the supply side is murkier.
•Rising energy costs will continue to be a major factor in the market for household appliances. Appliances that use natural gas (dryers and stoves) may see higher demand in some regions.
•Reuse and recycling of appliances will increasingly become a factor in the market. The cost of appliance disposal is rising at a faster rate than the cost of the appliances themselves.
• Smart-phone savvy consumers increasingly will demand "smart" connectivity features in home appliances.


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Financial Incentives May Sap Motivation, Undermine Quality: Health Affairs Article
Recent findings in behavioral economics may help explain how pay-for-performance schemes in health care can 'crowd-out' intrinsic motivation and worsen performance
WASHINGTON - A leading authority on behavioral economics has teamed up with two health policy experts in an article at the Health Affairs blog to argue that pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes in medicine may do more harm than good by "crowding out" altruism and other intrinsic motivations to do a good job.
Such P4P schemes, which are being quickly adopted by Medicare and many private insurers under the new federal health law, typically involve giving bonuses to doctors and hospitals for hitting specific, numerical targets in such matters as prescribing certain drugs or ordering screening tests.
However, despite the widespread rush to embrace P4P, a growing body of research has found no evidence that these schemes actually benefit patients, write professor Dan Ariely and physicians Dr. Steffie Woolhandler and Dr. David Himmelstein. Their article was posted to the blog late Thursday afternoon.
Moreover, it's likely the introduction of such schemes into the cognitively complex work of medicine will backfire, they say.
"Traditionally, economists have viewed extrinsic (i.e. monetary) reward as either the only motivator or as simply additive to intrinsic motivators such as purpose, altruism, mastery, or autonomy," the authors write.
"According to this view, higher pay induces better performance. But this simple model of reward-induced performance ignores the complexity of human drive, particularly the role of intrinsic motivation – the desire to perform an activity for its own inherent rewards.
"Offering your dinner-party host a $10 reward for cooking a wonderful meal isn't likely to motivate future invitations."
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The authors cite multiple research studies – involving blood donors in the United States, volunteer workers in Switzerland, and Israelis with children in day care, to name just a few – that show how introducing financial incentives into the picture led to diminished motivation to do the right thing.
They also cite a meta-analysis summarizing 128 studies that show such findings are representative of a consistent body of research.
In addition, the authors warn that "crowd-out" of doctors' intrinsic motivation may be particularly severe when contracts are more detailed and controlling. P4P incentives may also lead providers to game the system by checking boxes or exaggerating diagnoses when they know that doing so will garner bonuses.
Pay-for-performance programs also increase administrative costs, they say, citing the extensive economics literature on the downsides of overly detailed contracts.
The authors are recognized experts in their respective fields. Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He is the author of numerous research studies and three bestselling books on behavioral economics, including "The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty."
Dr. Steffie Woolhandler and Dr. David Himmelstein are physicians and professors at the City University of New York's School of Public Health at Hunter College and visiting professors of medicine at Harvard Medical School. They have published many articles in leading medical journals on health insurance and mortality, medical bankruptcy and administrative costs in health care, among other subjects. They are also co-founders of Physicians for a National Health Program, a single-payer advocacy group. PNHP provided no financial or other support for their research.
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